WikiLeaks has announced on Twitter that it will release a new document today.

The embattled journalistic site issued the tweet on Tuesday, simply stating “WikiLeaks to release CIA paper tomorrow”. No futher information has been released indicating what the new document might contain and, at the time of writing, the document had not been released.

It’s been a busy month for WikiLeaks. Since the site, fronted by renegade journalist Julian Assange, released a pile of secret documents relating to the war in Afghanistan, it has rarely been out of the headlines. In the past few weeks the Pentagon has issued threats against the site (even demanding that WikiLeaks ‘return’ all of the classified documents in its possession), WikiLeaks has been involved in a public spat with Amnesty International, and Julian Assange was accused of rape in Sweden.

Although the arrest warrant issued in Sweden relating to the rape allegations was quickly withdrawn due to lack of evidence (prompting many, including Assange, to consider that he may have been the victim of a smear campaign), he still faces lesser charges of molestation in the country. Some have speculated that the allegations – which were ironically leaked to the press before Assange found out about them – are a plot designed to distract or discourage WikiLeaks from releasing further classified documents. If that is the case, it seems to be failing; not only has the site announced that a new paper will be released today, but WikiLeaks is also planning to release a further 15,000 documents withheld from the first batch of Afghan war logs.

Perhaps in anticipation of this intimidation and attacks, WikiLeaks also realeased an encrypted ‘insurance file‘ at the beginning of the month, the key to which could be released should anything nasty happen to the site or its high-profile founder.

Reader Comments

There is a very simple way to handle a ‘renegade’ journalist like Julian Assange – but our Gov’t has no b@lls to speak of.

Here’s what I would do. We know which agents and civilians will be impacted. So, we check their health today, how are they feeling? Illnesses? Sicknesses? The basics, are they missing?

Then, after Julian Assange does the story, we check again. Then we charge him as an accomplice in ‘x’ pre-meditated murders, ‘y’ kidnappings, ‘z’ tortures and let him have his day in court.

He KNEW what he was doing was going to jeopardize the lives of both US soldiers as well as foreign agents – and opted to go for the personal fame and fortune over the lives of others. We should reward such risk-taking – by letting him share in the risks our soldiers are taking, and the risks that the foreign agents have placed their families in.

Then follow this all up with the seldom used charge of Treason and Sedition – for he is surely guilty of both.

We have a Judicial Court system, let’s use it. And if he’s convicted and found guilty – I believe the inmates in the various penal systems will finish up what the Courts failed to do. Worked well enough with Jeffrey Dahmner, as I recall.

http://www.howictheworld.com Hotrao

I don’t really like to speak of this, but, I don’t also like the misuse of freedom of speech.

One thing is to release documents on companies doing bad things, another is to “burn” people working undercover or putting them in danger.

Freedom of speech is a right that should be used with some wiseness.

Daniel

You could look at it another, way, though, and say it would be irresponsible NOT to release this information. Obviously there is someone breaching security from within by leaking these documents to Wikileaks in the first place. Which means any competent spy could get their hands on this information the same way Wikileaks came by it. So by releasing it, he’s saying, “HEY, you have a security breach. Get on that! Now you have to reassign everyone because their identities have been compromised by me and who-knows-who-else.”

It’s interesting to see how Wikileaks has been catapulted into the spotlight and how that may have changed their MO. Seems like lately they’ve been subtly feeding the hype around their site by doing things like publicly releasing their “insurance file,” taking their time on releasing those additional 15000 documents, and on and on (if you want a little more information on how they’re hyping the release of those docs, I recommend the video here: http://www.newsy.com/videos/wikileaks-publishes-cia-document/). Of course, the thwarted rape framing didn’t help take them out of the spotlight, either.